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University of Florida faculty
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The list University of Florida faculty includes
James Dickey, Richard Adams, Stuart Buchanan, John Ciardi and Harry Crews.
The list consists of 484 members.
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Richard Adams
English fantasy writer
Overview: Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist and writer of the books Watership Down, Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He studied modern history at university before serving ...Date of birth: 9 May 1920Date of death: 24 December 2016Age: 96 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: AuthorGender: Male
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Stuart Buchanan
American actor
Overview: Stuart Buchanan (March 18, 1894 – February 4, 1974) was an American voice actor, announcer, and educator.Date of birth: 18 March 1894Date of death: 4 February 1974Age: 79 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ActorGender: Male 0
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James Dickey
American writer
Overview: James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South ...Date of birth: 2 February 1923Date of death: 19 January 1997Age: 73 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: MaleHeight: 6' 3" (190 cm) 0
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Rudolf E. Kalman
Hungarian scientist
Overview: Rudolf Emil Kálmán (May 19, 1930 – July 2, 2016) was an Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter ...Date of birth: 19 May 1930Date of death: 2 July 2016Age: 86 (age at death)Nationality: HungarianOccupation: Scientist 0
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John Ciardi
American poet, professor, translator (1916–1986)
Overview: John Anthony Ciardi ( CHAR-dee; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several ...Date of birth: 24 June 1916Date of death: 30 March 1986Age: 69 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Harry Crews
American novelist
Overview: Harry Eugene Crews (June 7, 1935 – March 28, 2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He often made use of violent, grotesque characters and set them in regions of the Deep South ...Date of birth: 7 June 1935Date of death: 28 March 2012Age: 76 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Melissa Hart (actress)
American actress, singer, and teacher
Overview: Melissa Hart is an American actress, singer, and teacher. She made her Broadway debut in 1966 as an ensemble member in Jerry Bock's The Apple Tree. As Barbara Harris's understudy, she replaced the actress ... 0
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Dennis K. Stanley
American college football player, coach, university professor, university administrator
Overview: Dennis Keith Stanley Sr. (April 14, 1906 – May 29, 1983), nicknamed Dutch Stanley, was an American education professor, university administrator and intercollegiate sports coach. Stanley was a native ...Date of birth: 14 April 1906Date of death: 29 May 1983Age: 77 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Track and FieldGender: Male 0
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Blake Ragsdale Van Leer
President of Georgia Tech
Overview: Blake Ragsdale Van Leer (a.k.a. Blake Van Leer) (August 16, 1893 – January 23, 1956) was the fifth president of Georgia Institute of Technology, founder of Southern Polytechnic State University ...Date of birth: 16 August 1893Date of death: 23 January 1956Age: 62 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Educator 0
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Albert Wass
Hungarian writer (1908–1998)
Overview: Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege (Hungarian gróf szentegyedi és czegei Wass Albert; Válaszút, Austria-Hungary (now Răscruci, Cluj County, Romania), January 8. 1908 – Astor Park, Florida, February ...Date of birth: 8 January 1908Date of death: 17 February 1998Age: 90 (age at death)Nationality: HungarianOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Ida Altman
HistorianOverview: Ida Louise Altman (born 1950) is an American historian of colonial Spain and Latin America. Her book Emigrants and Society received the 1990 Herbert E. Bolton Prize of the Conference on Latin American ... 0
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C. S. Holling
Canadian ecologist
Overview: Crawford Stanley (Buzz) Holling, OC FRSC (December 6, 1930 – August 16, 2019) was a Canadian ecologist, and Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences at the University of Florida. ...Date of birth: 6 December 1930Date of death: 16 August 2019Age: 88 (age at death)Nationality: CanadianOccupation: Economist 0
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Archie Carr
American herpetologist, ecologist and conservationist
Overview: Archie Fairly Carr, Jr. (June 16, 1909 – May 21, 1987) was an American herpetologist, ecologist and a pioneering conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida. In 1987 he ...Date of birth: 16 June 1909Date of death: 21 May 1987Age: 77 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Biologist 0
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Robert Cade
American medical doctor, nephrologist, research scientist, inventor of Gatorade
Overview: James Robert Cade (September 26, 1927 – November 27, 2007) was an American physician, university professor, research scientist and inventor. Cade, a native of Texas, earned his bachelor and medical degrees ...Date of birth: 26 September 1927Date of death: 27 November 2007Age: 80 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Philanthropist 0
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James Van Fleet
US Army general (1892–1992)
Overview: James Alward Van Fleet (March 19, 1892 – September 23, 1992) was a U.S. Army officer during World War I, World War II and the Korean War. Van Fleet was a native of New Jersey, who was raised in Florida ...Date of birth: 19 March 1892Date of death: 23 September 1992Age: 100 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: MilitaryGender: Male 0
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Otton Solis
Costa Rican politician
Overview: Ottón Solís Fallas (born 31 May 1954 near Pérez Zeledón) is a Costa Rican politician. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Costa Rica in 1976 and gained a Master's Degree in ... 0
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
American novelist (1896–1953)
Overview: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about ...Date of birth: 8 August 1896Date of death: 14 December 1953Age: 57 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: NovelistGender: Female 0
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Terry Anderson
American, Journalist
Overview: Terry A. Anderson (October 27, 1947 – April 21, 2024) was an American journalist. He reported for the Associated Press. In 1985, he was taken hostage by Shia Hezbollah militants of the Islamic Jihad O ...Date of birth: 27 October 1947Date of death: 21 April 2024Age: 76 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: JournalistGender: Male 0
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George R. Dekle, Sr.
American lawyer, professor, and author
Overview: George Robert "Bob" Dekle Sr. (born May 23, 1948) is an American lawyer who was an Assistant State Attorney in Florida's Third Judicial Circuit from 1975 through 2005. During this time, he served as lead ... 0
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Jill Ciment
American writer (born 1955)
Overview: Jill Ciment (born March 19, 1953) is an American writer. 0
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